National Road Race Championships

Beasty

Mel Spath retains the Women's Elite Championship at Carlingford today, from Siobhan McNamara with Mary Costello 3rd

Earlier Hugh Mulhearne took the vets championship from Greg Swinnand and Derek Joyce

Inquitus

Henlars67

Bennet and Brammieier are joint favourites at 9/4 with Philip Deignan at 6/1. With the flat circuit Bennett looks a great bet, but hard to look past a 3 time defending champion.

Thoughts?

morana

Think Lavery will be in the first 3 he is riding well and he is very aggressive, thats what it will take. Its short as well so that could play into bennetts hands he should have a decent sprint at the end if he makes the split.

Bennett, LAvery , Brammeier

JacksonHeightsOwn

are Dan Martin and Roche not riding?

Chips Lovell

My money is on Lavery.

Beasty

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

My money is on Lavery.

I'll put mine on Bennett then....

RobFowl

Bennett for me with Paudi OBrien as an outside bet

godtabh

chrisbonnie wrote: »

are Dan Martin and Roche not riding?

Roche isnt. He's away with Saxo doing a tour de france camp

ROK ON

Would love go see one of the younger lads take the title today. It could well push them into bigger things. While Brammier has been the strongest in past three events I don't think that he will ever be better than he is. Everytime I read an interview with him he comes across like a right moany b1tch.

MPFG

I want Philip Deignan to win .....he could win most while wearing the jersey

Still annoyed D Martin and N Roche aren't there ....I know D Millar is in Scotland and was training yesterday with Martin in Girona (acc to Twitter) .....so where is the camp....I bet Millar will be in the Tour

Valverde is in Spain,V De Brooke in Holland, Sagan in Slovakia, Cavandish in Scotland, etc ...imagine they are all doing the Tour ??

MPFG

The minute i mention Deignan he crashes ....what the feck

fat bloke

Such a pity this isn't televised .

Big up to the ladies who crashed yesterday. Four laps in and still up there no bother.
-Nursing bruised flesh and carbon today .

531

What time does the race start? Is there any updates available anywhere?

MPFG

531 wrote: »

What time does the race start? Is there any updates available anywhere?

its been on for ages - where you've been


following on Twitter with

PlanetTriRacing

briancanty

godtabh

MPFG wrote: »

its been on for ages - where you've been

Out cycling!

RobFowl

Live feed from finish line

http://www.irishcyclingphotos.com/?p=17395

Inquitus

Brammier, Lavery

ednwireland

brammier 4 in a row !

MPFG wrote: »

its been on for ages - where you've been


following on Twitter with

PlanetTriRacing

briancanty

thanks for those planettriracing did a great job on the ol twitter

AIR-AUSSIE

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MPFG

And Fulgsang who is leading Astana in the Tour is riding in Denmark

While Greipel has won German RR from Degencob........

titan18

MPFG wrote: »

And Fulgsang who is leading Astana in the Tour is riding in Denmark

While Greipel has won German RR from Degencob........

I don't think any of the Saxo team selected for the Tour rode their national team races. Garmin haven't announced their team yet, but I'd imagine they wanted Martin there to work with Hesjedal and Talanksy.

MPFG

Well I for one don't think its good enough not to take 3 days out and ride in your 'home' championships ..... training could eb scheduled around it ...

Cavandish has flown from Italy to Glasgow to ride around in the rain. I am not a fan of his but respect for giving his national championship the respect it deserves

Kinda questions the whole argument about flying to Corsica.....as must be just as hard ot get to Corsica from Glasgow as from Dublin....

Beasty

Sounds like Cav is taking it seriously - in the 5 man break on the final lap by the sounds of it

Inquitus

Beasty wrote: »

Sounds like Cav is taking it seriously - in the 5 man break on the final lap by the sounds of it

Kennaugh, Stannard, Millar and Cav are about 5 mins clear on the final lap.

Stannard punctured not long ago and the other 3 waited, class act.

Beasty

Twitter feed

Montrose Street now and the last chance to drop the sprinters? No, because it is Cav who attacks!!

Inquitus

Millar, Cav and Stannard all together,. looks like Cav prob has this in a sprint.

Inquitus

Brian Smith ‏@BriSmithy 40s
Cav - Stannard - Millar #Glasgow

can't believe this wasn't on TV

Beasty

and Cav takes it

ednwireland

Inquitus wrote: »

can't beleive this wasn't on TV

+1 sounds like some race

Cavendish is the 2013 British Road Race Champion

RobFowl

Beasty wrote: »

and Cav takes it

He rode a similarly aggressive race at the last commonwealth games although didn't win. nailed it today despite at one stage having 4 Sky riders in the break with him.
Great ride.

Also for Brammeier to win 4 in a row is simply astounding. A suberp display and one which deserves respect.

Chapeau to the 2 of them.

Diarmuid

What a ride by Damien Shaw today!

dedocdude

Cav? Millar? Shaw? Which National Road Race Championships are we discussing lads? ;-)

Beasty

Well I started the thread;)

Inquitus

dedocdude wrote: »

Cav? Millar? Shaw? Which National Road Race Championships are we discussing lads? ;-)

All of them. Sagan won a sprint in the Slovakian NRRC.

Inquitus

Ooh and Johnny Hoogerland won in Holland.

Close race in Norway - http://www.tv2.no/play/sport/sykkel/her-tar-hushovd-en-haarfin-soloseier-727809.html

Esroh

Inquitus wrote: »

Ooh and Johnny Hoogerland won in Holland

What is Dutch corner on Alpe d'Huez going to be like when JH goes past twice

Beasty

RobFowl wrote: »

He rode a similarly aggressive race at the last commonwealth games although didn't win. nailed it today despite at one stage having 4 Sky riders in the break with him.
Great ride.

Can't see him getting much of a lead-out at next year's Commonwealths - not sure but I guess it will could well be the same course (looks like they will be leaving the RR until the very end to give a chance for riders from the Tour to compete)

RO 06

Inquitus wrote: »

Brian Smith ‏@BriSmithy 40s
Cav - Stannard - Millar #Glasgow

can't believe this wasn't on TV

On ITV4 tomorrow evening

n-dawg

I was out at the British RR champs today... Cav was unreal. Deserved the win on a very tough circuit. 13 laps of a course with 5 good climbs including the 20% Montrose street.

michaelm

Diarmuid wrote: »

What a ride by Damien Shaw today!

I reckon Damien is possibly the most naturally talented Irish rider in recent years. I think I m correct in saying this is just his third year riding having come late to the sport. He also holds down a full time job as a fireman. Imagine if he was training full time!

shaungil

michaelm wrote: »

I reckon Damien is possibly the most naturally talented Irish rider in recent years. I think I m correct in saying this is just his third year riding having come late to the sport. He also holds down a full time job as a fireman. Imagine if he was training full time!

He was an A4 three years ago. raced in dunlavin did 2 laps o his own with a few of u chasing hard including his own team mate. we caught him on last corner. Did n't do him any harm.

AIR-AUSSIE

Decent video from a car of Brammier's attack with 500m to go.

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/philip-deignan-crash-photos-video-of-matt-brammeiers-clever-attack-off-traffic-island/

bluefoot

Here are the video highlights of the Irish National Champs cycling on sunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29gXegjbJQ

Enjoy!

ednwireland

great program on itv4 for the british nationals

luapenak

ednwireland wrote: »

great program on itv4 for the british nationals

Not available in Republic of Ireland - UPC. I presume it's different on SKY?

ednwireland

luapenak wrote: »

Not available in Republic of Ireland - UPC. I presume it's different on SKY?

i have a freesat box !

xbox gamer

To be a national champion, this is what is involved. Matt Brammeier just tweeted his race statistics off garmin connect. Some serious figures there :eek:

http://connect.garmin.com/page/activity/activity.faces?activityId=333004942&actionMethod=page%2Factivity%2Factivity.xhtml%3AuserSwitcher.switchSystem&cid=36702146

buffalo

On the other end of the amateur-professional spectrum - a county rider's story: http://url.ie/hwlr

What a man! If you don't already think he's spectacular, you should now just for the headline quote.

Chips Lovell

Shaw was the ride of the day for me. The guy's an awesome talent. He was beaming as he crossed the line.

Harrybelafonte

buffalo wrote: »

On the other end of the amateur-professional spectrum - a county rider's story: http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/i-was-hanging-out-of-the-lads-i-just-wanted-a-medal-i-didnt-give-a-****e-what-colour-it-was/

What a man! If you don't already think he's spectacular, you should now just for the headline quote.

Boards is correcting your link as there's a naughty word in there :rolleyes: